Team

Established in Basel in 1978, Herzog & de Meuron is a partnership led by Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron together with Senior Partners Christine Binswanger, Ascan Mergenthaler, Stefan Marbach, Esther Zumsteg, and Jason Frantzen. An international team of nearly 500 collaborators, including the two Founders, five Senior Partners, five Partners, and 44 Associates work on projects across Europe, the Americas and Asia. The main office is in Basel with additional offices in London, New York City, Hong Kong, Berlin, and Copenhagen.

The practice has designed a wide range of projects from the small scale of a private home to the large scale of urban design. Many projects are highly recognized public facilities, such as museums, stadiums, and hospitals, and they have completed distinguished private projects including offices, laboratories and apartment buildings. Awards received include the Pritzker Architecture Prize (USA) in 2001, the RIBA Royal Gold Medal (UK), the Praemium Imperiale (Japan), both in 2007, and the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize (USA) in 2014.

Anish Kapoor was born in Mumbai, India in 1954 and lives and works in London. He studied at Hornsey College of Art, London, UK (1973 – 77) followed by postgraduate studies at Chelsea School of Art, London, UK (1977 – 78). Recent solo exhibitions include CAFA Art Museum and the Imperial Ancestral Temple, Beijing (2019); CorpArtes, Santiago (2019); Pitzhanger Manor and Gallery, London, (2019); Serralves Museum, Porto, Portugal (2018); Descension with the Public Art Fund, Brooklyn Bridge Park Pier 1, New York, NY (2017); Parque de la Memoria, Buenos Aires (2017); MAST Foundation, Bologna, Italy (2017); Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC), Mexico City (2016); Couvent de la Tourette, Eveux, France (2015); Château de Versailles, France (2015); and The Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center, Moscow (2015). He represented Britain at the 44th Venice Biennale in 1990 with Void Field (1989), for which he was awarded the Premio Duemila for Best Young Artist and won the Turner Prize in 1991. In 2001 Kapoor received an honorary fellowship from the Royal Institute of British Architecture, London, UK; he was awarded a CBE in 2003 and received a Knighthood for services to the visual arts in 2013. Large scale public projects include Cloud Gate (2004) in Millennium Park, Chicago, IL; Orbit (2012) in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, London; and Ark Nova (2013), the world’s first inflatable concert hall, created to travel to regions of Japan effected by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami. 56 Leonard is his first permanent public work in New York.

Alexico Group is recognized as a leader in luxury residential and hotel development with a deeply felt commitment to high architecture and design. Alexico Group has developed some of the most significant buildings in New York City, including 56 Leonard Street designed by Pritzker-Prize winning architects Herzog & de Meuron, The Mark Hotel by Jacques Grange, 165 Charles Street by Richard Meier (winner of the AIA 2005 Merit Award), The Laurel by Costas Kondylis, The Grand Beekman, and 353 Central Park West among others. Alexico Group is committed to building remarkable urban homes that are a fusion of prime locals, world class architecture and the most innovative lifestyle amenities.